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  • god....bless....you....too good...LOL XD

  • PS I myself am learning to play this suite on bass guitar. I am up to the Courante.

  • polymeter, unusual time signatures, 'jazz' chords IE Mb5#11 and do it via another genre. Don't quote me or anything, but I would say they have 'evolved' from Bach. Not necessarily better, but definitely evolved.

    Overall, it's rather blatant to me that all those haters of modern music. Either don't understand it, haven't experienced it or are too arrogant to do so.

    RANT OVER!! ;)

    DMNZ out

  • their ears with any other genre. They then hear simple pop music and come to the conclusion that today's music has 'devolved'.

    I'd say the opposite. Music has evolved on multiple levels, further than ever before. I would say we're at a cultural peak. Along one line music has become catchy and simple IE pop. Along others, even more complex. Check out a band called Animals As Leaders. IMO most classical is in 4/4 or whatever and is barely syncopated. AAL, on the other hand, employ polyrhythm,

  • Man too many people are under the misconception that music and culture is 'devolving'. I guess when you compare the intricacy of Bach to something like Katy Perry or what not then it's easy to come to that conclusion.Look at some of the famous composers of today, John Williams is pretty cool.

    For sure, I'm no expert but I think that it's partly down to the relative obscurity of the more 'artful' music and the format. IE people that listen to this kind of music generally won't want to grace the

  • I wouldn`t do the same bowing, very romantic way with long ones, though otherwise capturing. Listen to Bylsma for otherway and read his book `Bach, the fencing master

  • Dang, when did Jesus learn how to play the cello?

  • I think the prelude is way better

  • This piece isn't too difficult except for some REALLY tricky chords near the end.

  • I simply do not understand how people can dislike a video like this.

  • @Gaymu

    ignorance is bold

  • 666 likes and 6 dislikes *gasp* 

  • haha this guy is so greattt!

  • optimus maximus

  • optimus

  • Mischa's playing is hypnotising! he makes it appear so effortless, and conveys every feeling in such a way that you know it has been refined and perfected so as to create a feeling of ultimate satisfaction <3

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  • Thanks for posting this. Thank you... Thank you... Thank you, (1000x more).

  • Bach was the stupendous miracle of all music

  • this guy his the father of mucic it is suspected that hes not HUMAN in his lifetime he created 1500 pieces! ur head would have blown off! most of th heavy metal riffs u hear today, were mostly inpired in bachs musics and it his important to study the history of the music if u wanna be acctuall musician no matter what style of music u play

  • Its pure perfection!

  • I'm learning this on my guitar, (i play classical guitar). I can play Prelude already! :) Next step; this amazing masterpiece. :)

  • Shits cash.

  • Why does the prelude have 7 million views, but this one has only 314,000? Don't you guys like to know what comes next?

  • I can't believed, five people don't like this piece. Bach is amazing. Ever in history was been like him.

  • This is great. Never heard of the man, but what he does is real magic!

  • 5 people are Antonio Saliery

  • @counterstrifekid ahaha nice, but Salieri was born the very year Back died, you're misunderstanding with Mozart i guess

  • Music like Lady Gagy should be banned

  • I play tuba (which is my favorite instrument), but cello is a close second, this song is so beautiful it makes me want to play cello more than ever, but I have no cello, no one to teach me, and my school doesn't have a string section.

  • @Thebr218 why?

  • @narvaruk that was a joke!

  • @Thebr218 I suppose so! ;)

  • When I first heard the ornamentation on the low D in 2:04 I thought, he crashed the tone by unpropper bow pressure ;-)

    Ornamentations aren't audible well in the low register...

  • @luisronaldofigo His afro and facial hair is perfect ^^

  • Where? It looks like a Palladian building.

  • what year was this video made? I checked his profile at Wikipedia, and man, he's over 60 years old!

  • You all can download RealPlayer (Google it), and put these into your own RP library to burn CDs or DVDs from. This is a dream series of Bach cello pieces!! Best ever!

  • Buffering is almost a sin with songs like these.

  • I can't help but think that his seat is meant for a piano.

  • @RokujyuuyonShou

    It's a seat. It's meant to put your ass on so you don't have to stand. It does not matter what instrument a sitter happens to be playing.

    Point is, why are you thinking about this dude's butt parking spot when there's such fine music to absorb? Weirdo :)

  • @RokujyuuyonShou Did you notice the music?????

  • @kkjelt i cant help but think that he needs to shave lol

  • @RokujyuuyonShou

    The world is what you make out of it.

    As to you 64 Shou, you think Mischa stole the stool (seat) while the poor

    pianist has to play his piano standing up...exhausting considerations indeed!

    You are having all these weird thoughts while the music is playing.

    How can you appreciate life ?

  • @celticcelticwger066 It's just so oddly striking to me that a piano stool is there....

  • I could listen hours to this

  • his cello sounds wonderful in this hall

  • @MrMoonme I agree with you

  • my life will be prefect if i able to play like him

  • about 265000 people forgot to like…

  • @IMxAxGINGER its because each people has watched this about 500 times but could like only once

  • this guy has everything. a bow tie, a tux, an awesome beard, and cello skills. this man is my hero

  • @piemasterkody Don't forget the afro.

  • LOVE<3LOVE<3LOVE<3

  • he makes it look so easy. Too bad it isn't....

  • not many people listen to classical music. way too many people get caught up in todays music. in my opionion they need to listen to the classic stuff to really get where music has evolved. its so beautiful.

  • @Nikoruscene8 not to be a douche but technically bach is baroque :)

  • @Nikoruscene8

    Music has not evolved.

    It has reverted to simple beats and mono-tones with idiotic lyrics.

    We are devolving as a species.

    Nobody wants to realize that because they know it will mean making changes and looking out for the well-being of others, rather than yourself.

  • @andycolekwanlee I'll agree that -popular- music is simple.

    But not all music is.

    And please don't dump the misanthropic bull on us about devolution; it's not true at all.

  • @Mikeinatorable Devolution on a physical level certainly isn't true..or really possible for that matter. But in a cultural sense, it's happening.

  • @andycolekwanlee This may be the case with pop music, but music as whole is always evolving. Even these cello suites were evolutionary leaps at their time and again when they were discovered 150 years later.

  • @andycolekwanlee Evolution and favorable outcome aren't synonymous. Music has evolved, though unfortunately into something abhorrent.

  • i try to play this, but its far, a lot far from what he does..

    i also play it on flute hehe

  • i played this :)

  • looks like jesus

  • @dogonskis do you see where he's sitting, the art, the room?! He clearly is. :)

  • When music stops and brain takes over heart again, it can't stop trying to understand how a man, not a god, not nature, could create such beauty all by himself. And what is its secret, to make it last centuries? This is for my mind a source of deep thinking, and of inspiration to emulate. But after all that doesnt matter, for to my heart this is pure glee.

  • it amazes me that something so beutiful can be made by one person and some crafted maple

  • prob one of the best interpretations on youtube

  • maravilloso

  • :') simply beutiful

  • Is he left handed?

  • anything sounds amazing played in a huge church lololol nah jk I love this piece and how he plays it

  • i enjoyed very much

  • is it just me or does that room have great acustics

    

  • Wow! I love it!!!!!!

  • I think the greatest thing about classical music is the fact that it is so easy to feel the emotion portrayed by a skilled artist such as Mischa Maisky, regardless of ones ethnic background or musical preference, we can all agree on the raw emotional influence of Bach's six suites for unaccompanied cello.

  • most of these were used as prctice pieces for many years its wasnt until later that people understood them for what they were maily organ music ported to the cello and a darn fine job hed did of it too, that Joe Bachh!

  • is this guys mexican or italian?

  • @comptonsmarkets

    He is Latvian

  • @masterchieffan what the @##%$^#*$ is that?!

  • @tututu000111222 Its somewhere in Russia

  • @comptonsmarkets It's Latvian... Former URSS republic. Why you think is mexican or Italian? His name is not latin rooted. (I'd be glad if he was mexican tough)

  • @comptonsmarkets hes jesus

  • @ColtonSaylor713

    yes, he is one of the many Jesuses, an Uebermensch sacrificing himself out of godliness.

  • hes a MASTER! wish i could play half like him!

  • He uses his chin in some double stops.

  • @julianoalberto

    guess im growing a beard

  • wao maestro

  • god, i wonder how long it must have taken to learn this suite by heart. amazing

  • @alex3ff4rly

    Most classical music performers learn their parts by heart...

    Like yesterday, I went to see a concert by a pianist (he was playing chopin, schubert and debussy), he played without sheet music, for 2 hours and a half.

  • Adam Sandlers long lost brother

  • Not a bass.... Its a cello. It even says cello in the title lol

  • yes but suites can be playe on other instermants than written for just not as good

  • @adhdboy699 Yeah, it wouldn't sound as "suite"! :D (that was supposed to be incredibly lame, by the way)

  • So much emotion and power.

  • la classe.

  • i'd like to see that chandelier break loose and smash him right over the head hahaha Just Kidding

  • lol why?

  • @rbmaserang lololol i thought the same thing when i first saw this!!! (is that bad?lol)

  • This man's ability is amazing, so much heart and for so many pieces. I applaud you mischa

  • Great job, Mischa!! :D  So enjoyable!

  • what's larger, a cello or a string bass?

  • @Frozenboard Upright bass is much bigger than cello.

  • I KNEW IT!!!

    Thank you, That was bugging me.

  • @Frozenboard No problem budday!

  • a bass

  • Such a tasteful cellist... I just love this. Going to look for his CD.

  • Hermosa melodia

  • What are those wWaaaAAAvvvYYY vibrato notes he adds???!!! That's not in that song!!!!!

    But yes, its beautiful, it is amazing.

  • There are indeed some "trills" written in on the transcription I have. He added a couple more, though.

  • haha its not written0, but it sure is IN the song

  • This was written at such an early time in the history of the modern Cello (and Bach's Baroque Era is the very beginning of post-Renaissance Western Classical) that although the 1st 4 Suites are written for a normally stringed and tuned 4-String Violoncello, the Fifth (5th) Suite is tuned for a smaller range, also the 6th 1 is controversial b/c of at least one other "-cello" instrument then, AND IT'S WRITTEN FOR 5-STRINGS.

  • Who cares what instrument this was meant for!!! It's the beautiful interpretation and the notes played that matters. Our personal preferences should stay just as that... Personal.

  • This is THE best of Bach...People must be very bored to argue over youtube...

  • in my opinion goldberg variations is the best of Bach

  • we are and yes of course this is amazing

  • @violinistx100 Haha, I agree!

  • @violinistx100 why its the best  of bach ??

  • Stop bickering everyone. Great music, very talented guy

  • Thank you Mr. Bach.

  • It's pretty silly to compare cello and guitar. I could appreciate both in their own right *IF* done by skilled players of either instrument. We can also keep in mind that the piece was written for cello (as far as we know. Remember the manuscript for these was almost used for a chopping board in a kitchen)

  • C'mon! His left hand is superimposed! Look at it !

  • everyone at my school who is in orchestra make it sound like shit.

  • I also agree with whoever said that the argument is pointless.

  • god damn why even compare the two? you cant compare anything to this anyways...  :]

  • I really love to listen to the cello sound, it's so rich and amazing to listen to

  • tanks

  • With practice like that I'm sure you will :)

  • you will get there in good time with that amount of practice :) i love the irony in your name... cellos have a relatively short bow :)

  • negative.

    I'm playing this peace.If you play it correctly, there are places where you can release the tension

  • That must hurt your fingers after a while.

  • in the first year of playing it kills, but you naturally adapt and get harder skin on your fingertips which is really useful... i cant even feel the part of my index finger thats most in contact with strings! and thats why guitarists pussy out and use a plectrum (i was joking on that bit, guitar rules, especially classical/spanish)

  • Don't really get that comment; apart from playing pizzicato you use the bow with the right hand, so I suppose your talking about the left hand here - how should a guitarist possibly play the left hand with a plectrum? It's rather reverse, where the cellists pussy out and use a bow, a guitarist uses his fingers ;P

  • Are you clompletely blind? cellists dont bow instead of plucking we do both, bowing makes a completely different sound, something you can't achieve on guitar, oh, and were skilled enough at hand co ordination to not need to use frets, unlike guitarists... it's people like you that spread mass ignorance, how sad.

  • hey, slow down there =) You got me wrong in more ways than I thought were possible in such a short message. I wrote you use the bow apart from playing p i z z i c a t o (what I was think the "plucking" on cello is called). I don't consider the guitar superior to the cello, I simply wanted to make a point about "pussying out" when it comes to right hand stuff (you started that), not to be taken serious (see the ;P) and I surely didn't want to start a discussion which instrument is "better" oO

  • Neither did i? your first comment seemed pretty set on pissing people off though... never mind

  • @ArcticGuardiaN good, because the cello would win

    and I dont even play the cello...

  • see now, that's the childsh competition stuff nobody needs. Each instruments has it's own advantages and disadvantages - and now stop argueing and enjoy the music

  • man ... don't argue for stuff like that. guitars and cellos are completely different instruments... both beautiful in their own way i don't think music is about what someone can or cannot do with a piece of wood in their hands its about what you do with your soul.... i do agree that this are two completely different sounds, and that is people like that guy that spread mass ignorance haha

  • sorry, were you talking to me?

  • Guitarists don't use their fingers, they use picks. Which is an equal version of the bow.

    Now both instruments have their respective sounds and neither is better than the other but in terms of learning and playing, cello requires a lot more precision and talent than a guitar. I know this because I've learned how to play both so please don't try to argue this point with me. You can try but I doubt you'll get anywhere.

  • Well respect to you for learning both instruments - but:

    1. Claiming that guitarists use picks, you can't really have learnt classical guitar or even put a major interest in listening to it. Because when playing classical, you absolutely NEVER use picks.

    2. Seeing that you don't talk about classical guitar (both instrument and style) here, you can't really judge whether it's easier to learn. It may be, but neither you nor me can tell by experience.

  • Electric, really is easier, but you can't really compare it to classical (I suspect, apocalyptica is easier then bach too).Search for julian bream, john williams, or any other classical guitarist on youtube and you will see, no picks at all, and after having seen some of the videos, you may agree that it's quite insulting to say that their instrument and style doesn't require as much effort or talent (!) as the cello, espacially without having mastered both instruments, what you clearly haven't.

  • Guitarist use both picks AND FINGERS.

    But yes, I have to agree. I have become (not to brag) a pretty good guitarist in four years, and learned standard picking, some finger picking, and a lot of double tapping techniques. And still, the cello has taken me ten years and I'm still not as good as it. It's much more demanding.

  • A pick is hardly equal to a bow. Pick technique, at its most complex, is nowhere near as difficult as bowing, and I say this as a guitarist that tried (and failed) to learn cello and violin.

  • Then we should let someone who has mastered both instruments to tell us what is truly the hardest. Just because you can't do it, doesn't mean another guitarist couldn't.

  • I don't have to be a master surgeon and a master chef to know that surgery is more difficult than cooking. Bowing is more difficult than picking, and playing with good intonation is more difficult without frets than with.

  • I think being a surgeon and master chef is a bit different from picking a guitar and then using a bow for a cello

  • Oh absolutely, but I'm sure you understand what an analogy is...

  • i would hope you would understand what a logical analogy that actually suits the given topic.

  • Surgery:Cooking::Cello:Guitar. Cello is flat out more difficult than guitar. There's really not much more to be said about that. Do you really disagree or are you just being contrary for the sake of  it?

  • at least cello and guitar are two musical instruments and yes, at this point i'm just being difficult haha. But yes Cello is a really hard instrument to learn to play..

  • An instrument cant be "more difficult" then another, because everything that makes some things easier (like picking) allows you to take it on another level.

    So there are obviously things you cant do on a cello because it's physically not possible to bow as fast as you can pick.

    so i think you can pick faster but it's still as difficult as bowing slower on the cello.

  • Tremolo.

  • @parsonsmatt: i really disagree. i've played both. i will give you that it's harder to get good intonation without frets, but thats about it. bowing is easier than picking, because you never deal with hammer-ons and pull offs. plus, guitar has 2 more strings. and on cello you never deal with more than 2 strings at a time.

  • 'cept that they have 8str guitars now ;P

  • 12 as well

  • yeah but...the 12 doesn't have as varied as a range as an 8...

  • beg to differ... in this piece even there are triple stops, a lot of pieces have quadruple stops (4 string chords).. playing guitar and violin/viola/cello... guitar is easier because of the frets and the bowed instruments my not have to hammer on or pull off, but they have trills and tremolos to make up for it. Doesn't matter though, all cam make fantastic music and all are difficult to truly master

  • it does lol

  • Mischa Maisky is the man... Thank you so much for this!

  • stfu with the drama and just enjoy the music you pricks ! Mischa Maisky is extremely talented & doesn't deserve all of this lame negativity.

  • @br33zyPWNZz don't worry about those suckers

  • wonderful..

  • this guy is like "pele" in soccer hehe simply the best ever.

  • That's a poor analogy. This guy is a fantastic 'cellist, possibly the best performer of this piece ever. Whereas Pele is not the best football player ever. Since him there have been at least a hundred of better players. For example right now Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Xabi Alonso , Kaká and Patrick Vieira are all better than him. And that list is not exhaustive. God, even Wayne Rooney and David Beckham are better players than he was. He was good, but by no means the best.

  • i think your analogy is even more poor than mine just because you are makin this about soccer when its about cello!!

    my coment was just a way of sayin he is the best,it wasnt to compare any players.

  • I didn't make an analogy. I made a statement. I was agreeing with you actually. I think this guy is a fantastic 'cellist. As I said, the best performance of this piece I've heard.

    I merely suggested that your analogy to Pelé was ridiculous because Pelé was nowhere near as good a football as Mischa Maisky is at 'cello.

  • hahaha OK! viva EL CELLO y la VIDA  = ).

  • Why, in heaven's name, would anyone compare football with classical music, particularly cello music...

  • For the long play...Of course !

  • uh football ppl again?

  • Yes, football people again. I think that label would cover more than half of the worlds population. It is possible to like both you know.

    However as you can see, all I was doing was suggesting that I thought the analogy used didn't fit. You are clearly a narrow-minded fool with nothing better to do than ridicule other people's choice in entertainment. I pity you.

  • This is more than enough to make me fall in love with the art cello playing!

  • haaaaaaaa mon avis est le 100eme : )